Potentially Fatal UTI?

[deliriumdiary]

Supposedly if I hadn't gone to the ER this morning, by tonight my brain would have boiled to dementia and I would have died in the next couple days.

Comments

[neongoddess]

UTI? Like....urinary tract infection? Potentially fatal?? Wow. Glad you're ok.

[deliriumdiary]

Yeah UTI. It's totally fucked. If I had insurance they would have hospitalized me. They let me leave with a fever of 103.. which is after the fever came down actually. What was really strange is my body was not fighting it at all. My white blood cell count was low rather then high.. my body was just accepting my death.

[neongoddess]

Damn, I can't believe they let you go with a fever that high. I wonder why your body wasn't fighting it. Did they test you for what might cause that?

[deliriumdiary]

They are doing an HIV test.. I don't know if they are doing anything else though.. they decided to do that before they found out about the white blood cell count though.

[virtual_saturna]

All infections can be fatal, especially if internal and go untreated. Scary and painful I'm sure. I'm glad you received medical help and survived!